{"id":486,"date":"2010-10-22T15:11:26","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T14:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/?p=486"},"modified":"2010-10-22T15:11:26","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T14:11:26","slug":"fyberspates-open-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/?p=486","title":{"rendered":"Fyberspates Open Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve still got lots of catchup posts to write but on Saturday the lovely Karen<\/a> drove Doug and I to Jeni’s<\/a> unit for the first day of the Fyberspates Open Weekend<\/a>. And what a fab day it was filled with knitting, conversation and the eating of cakes!\u00c2\u00a0 What more could you ask for?<\/p>\n

This was the first time I’d been to Jeni’s unit and look, there’s yarn every where!<\/p>\n

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Even bears love yarn.<\/p>\n

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Doug used to spin as a teenager and I had been hoping for ages to persuade him to try again. Alas spinning takes a lot of practice and letting more than twenty years pass doesn’t help.<\/p>\n

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Jeni’s mother Mary is an amzing baker and baked some lovely goodies<\/p>\n

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Some of Mary’s fabulous baked goods. I was able to get the recipe for the chocolate cake from Mary and hope to bake it soon \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I managed to get Jen and Mary to pose for the camera but it was a bit difficult!<\/p>\n

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I had resolved to be strong around the lovely yarns and not purchase any since I do have a wall of yarn. But this lovely skein insisted on coming home with me. It’s and is rather difficult to capture the shade exactly. Be assured that it’s a rather rich, vibrant purple with a beautifully soft hand. I haven’t decided what this will be just yet but I feel that it is calling to be knit in a cabled design.<\/p>\n

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At one point Jen found some perspex yarn bobbins which I joked looked like knitters throwing stars! We tried to get Jen to pose as a knitting ninja for photos. I got her to wear a skein Lara Croft style but she wasn’t playing yarn ball \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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It was wonderful to see Jen again, it was over a year since we’d last seen each other, and even better to see her in her element amongst her work \ud83d\ude42 I need to do another interview with Jen sometime since the last time she was on KnitCast was five years ago<\/a>. I’ve seen Jeni’s journey from the first time she began dying, to selling skeins on eBay, to giving up her old day job and working at Fyberspates fulltime. I can’t tell you how happy it makes me to see my friend do so well. And my god, she works so very hard. She deserves every success she gets and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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